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“George Herriman was a poet in a new visual language. As a man, he was an enigma to match his greatest creation, the sublime Krazy Kat . Michael Tisserand has done a masterful job of illuminating this life lived in the shadowy borderlands of racial identity; along the way he also gives a brilliant overview of the golden years of American cartooning.
- Michael Tisserand
Oct 18, 2017 · George Herriman. George Herriman (New Orleans, 1880 – Los Angeles, 1944), regarded as one of the foremost American cartoonists, was part of a generation of pioneering artists who developed their work in the newspapers that started to feature comic strips at the turn of the twentieth century. Herriman’s work was hugely influential among a broad array of artists, including Willem de Kooning ...
Dec 6, 2016 · In Michael Tisserand’s biography Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, the creator of history’s greatest comic strip finally gets his due.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKWINNER OF THE EISNER AWARDFINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN BIOGRAPHY AND THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYKrazy is an eye-opening biography that lays bare the truth about George Herriman’s art ...
Nov 14, 2016 · George Herriman sport cartoon depicting heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson -- March 10, 1907. Michael Tisserand: There was such raw hatred in the press toward the notion of white boxers being challenged, and of course defeated, by blacks. Jack London's journalism is staggeringly ugly.
Dec 18, 1986 · George Herriman was thirty-three when he solved the problem of evil. This was in 1913, when he introduced Ignatz the mouse into his comic strip, Krazy Kat . Because Krazy Kat includes Ignatz, the crazed brick-throwing rodent, we don’t normally think of Herriman’s Coconino County as an imaginary Eden, a highly personal vision of a perfectly harmonious place.
Jan 21, 2021 · Krazy Kat by George Herriman, specifically, the Sunday strips that ran from 1916-1944, is my single favorite work in the medium of comics. On first blush, it can be fairly incomprehensible. It is structured around an unusual slapstick setup that might be a tad opaque to a new reader.
Jun 6, 2017 · George Herriman was never seen without a book, his friend Barbara Bedwell once told me. In his masterful comic strip Krazy Kat , Herriman made no secret of his favorite writers. At any moment, Krazy and Ignatz Mouse might pause the main action—Ignatz throwing a brick at Krazy Kat and Krazy swooning in adoration—just long enough to quote Shakespeare or joke about Charles Dickens.
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